Director-General Pascal Lamy, in opening the Fifth Workshop for Heads of Investigating Authorities at the WTO on 27 February 2012, said that unlike in previous global economic downturns, “there had been a significant decline in initiations of new (anti-dumping) investigations, from 213 in 2008 down to 153 in 2011”.
This speech is available in its entirety on the World Trade Organization website at:
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl218_e.htm